Network

The research group has a well-established network both national and internationally. Members of the group are active participants in the Nordic Association for SFL and social semiotics and meet for workshops and conferences each year. This association has published several works in which members of the group have contributed. In addition, the group works with nordic terminology for SFL and social semiotics, and the members of the research team have actively participated since 2004. The team also has close connection with the Foreningen for SFL i professionerne i København. In addition, the research group has connections to ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Association). Several members have attended ASFLAs conferences and this has led to specific connections with scientists in Australia in both SFL and multimodality. A member of the research team have been an opponent on a doctorate at the University of Technology Sydney in 2016, and the internationally renowned scientist Professor Theo van Leeuwen has been a lecturer and supervisor in PhD courses at USN in 2015. Also nationally, the research group has connections to other groups working with SFL and social semiotics. Here, we would like to specifically mention the multimodality community at the University of Agder and SFL at the Department of Literature, area studies and european languages and Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo. In addition, the research group has links to the National Center for writing and writing research at NTNU and National Videncenter for Læsning at the University College Syd, Copenhagen when it comes SFL and multimodal text research in schools and kindergartens.

Some selected publications

Maagerø, Eva og Guri Lorentzen Østbye (2016): What a girl! Fighting gentleness in the picture book world. An analysis of the Norwegian picture book What a Girl! by Gro Dahle and Svein Nyhus. I: Children’s Literature in Education. Heidelberg og New York: Springer Press